New
Zealand movie ‘3 Mile Limit’ has won Best International
Feature Film at the Washington DC Independent Film Festival.
The film is due for release in NZ on March 6th 2014. It’s
produced and directed by Craig Newland in association with
No.8 Films.

“To win best international feature
film in Washington DC is a real honour and such a thrill for
not only me but for my amazing cast and crew. We had the NZ
premiere last Thursday, which was an awesome night of
celebration at the Civic theatre, over 2000 people turned up
to watch the film and make it a special night. It seems
international film festivals are reacting strongly to the
Radio Hauraki untold true story, and I hope people support
the film on opening weekend here at home on March 6.”
Newland said.

3 Mile Limit also won the Fargo
International Film Festival for Best Feature Film and has
been selected into competition by 10 international film
festivals. NZ audiences get their turn on March 6.

3 Mile
Limit is an iconic New Zealand true story based on the
1960’s beginnings of Radio Hauraki on a boat called the
TIRI in international waters in the Hauraki Gulf in
Auckland.

It's 1965 and rock music is shaking up the world
but not in New Zealand. Richard Davis is a 23yr old
journalist by day, but at night manages a local band called
‘The Yellow Sprockets’. He is determined to break the
government's monopoly on state broadcasting and bring rock
n' roll and free speech to an oppressed younger generation,
and at the same time hold onto the woman he loves.

A power
struggle develops between the government and these free
spirited individuals who set out to change a system that
starved a nation of modern pop music.

Director Craig
Newland has pieced together a strong cast, which includes
leading man Matt Whelan, (My Wedding and Other
Secrets, and The Most Fun You Can Have Dying) who
is supported by Dan Musgrove (Underbelly) and David
Aston (Lord of The Rings, Underworld, The Matrix) as
the Broadcasting Minister.

The screenplay written
by Craig Newland and Andrew Gunn was recognised early as an
international story that will travel beyond the shores of
New Zealand by Ed Pressman, the legendary New York based
producer (Wall Street starring Michael Douglas, and
American Psycho) who loaned his support to the film and
believed in its universal appeal.

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